Package maintenance

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 12:41 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of ushare (UPnP (TM) A/V Media Server) which use
> libupnp. A new version (1.1) will be out soon and this version use a new
> lib http://libdlna.geexbox.org/ which need ffmpeg-devel.ffmpeg is part
> of livna repo because it is not free i guess. So i will have to port
> libdlna and ushare to livna because it use a non free package ?

Your guess is right. You can either attempt to maintian the older
package without the dependency on patent enucmbered software, or modify
the new package not to depend on it.

If you want to provide the newer version with ffmpeg support, I guess
the rpmfusion project will accept it.

Regards,
-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)